Currently, Texas law prohibits abortions during the third trimester unless the health or life of the mother is at stake or if there are fetal abnormalities. A study by the Texas Medical Association published in 2005 found ‘evidence regarding the capacity for fetal pain is limited but indicates that fetal perception of pain is unlikely before the third trimester.’

Blake Rocap, the legislative director for NARAL Pro-Choice Texas, said his organization would fight such a bill, and that decisions about abortion should be left to a woman, her family and her physician. ‘This legislation appeals and panders to a very narrow slice of the most socially conservative primary voters in the state,’ Rocap said

Joe Pojman, the executive director of Texas Alliance for Life, said his organization’s ‘big goal’ in the upcoming session is to ‘continue to defund Planned Parenthood’ by banning health providers affiliated with abortion providers from participating in the state’s Medicaid program.

Last session, lawmakers approved a similar rule for the Women’s Health Program, a Medicaid waiver program for low-income women, which is still being legally contested by Planned Parenthood. The move prompted the federal government, which jointly finances Medicaid with the state, to pull money for the program — an indication that the Obama administration would have little patience for a similar measure applied to the full Medicaid program.

Pojman also supports a bill filed by Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston and the author of last session’s abortion sonogram law, that would require doctors to be physically present to administer the two prescription drugs used to induce abortions during the first seven weeks of pregnancy.

I see readers can now pick up a hardback copy at Amazon for a penny.
From one of the negative reviews:

The book contains superficial overviews of the Bible corrupted by Dan Patrick's vanity and self-centeredness. This is blasphemous exploitation at its worst. The book really saddens me,since, in all religions, goodness starts with love and humility. This book, since it perverts our most sacred values, poisons our society. At least nobody seems to be reading it.